Hannah Smith, 14, was found hanged in her bedroom at the family home in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, by her sister two weeks ago.

She was bullied by other users on the ask.fm website, which lets people ask anonymous questions of anyone on the network, inviting answers. Hannah killed herself after anonymous users sent messages encouraging her to self-harm.

Daniel, from Dunfermline in Fife, died on 15 July. Police Scotland confirmed that officers were investigating the circumstances surrounding his death and urged anyone experiencing cyberbullying to report it.

It has been reported that anonymous users on the social media website Ask.fm had urged the teenager to kill himself about three months before he died.

Feminists who dare to talk about equality are also under attack on social networks and Ask.fm is a very popular tool for the attackers to use.

There was the circumventing blocking on twitter by using ask.fm – this involved my harassers asking questions of other people on ask.fm, that included my twitter handle, which meant that when that person answered one of these questions, I got tweeted. The “questions” varied from rape threats to publishing what they thought was my home address. And the questions were asked hundreds and hundreds of times, so that they filled up my twitter mentions. And I can tell you that on the day this type of abuse was at its worst, I broke down completely, utterly overwhelmed, starting to think that it was never going to end. By this point, it had been going on for a week.

I have also been a victim of Ask.fm where my abuser wished some of the most hateful and vile things towards me including death threats, wishing me to commit suicide and even worse.

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